Delito de Opinião

A ler, este artigo do Washington Post. Sobre ser pai e mãe, ser mulher nos dias de hoje. Que crianças estamos a criar, e que vida andamos a viver?

Helicopter parenting is, to put it mildly, more time-consuming and more emotionally demanding than other parenting styles. And much of its work falls (as the work of parenting always has) on women. Since 1965, the amount of time mothers spend on all child-care activities has risen, even though the majority of mothers are now in the labor force; the increase has been particularly sharp among highly educated mothers.

So it's not just that today's professional mothers are holding down what would, in the 1960s, have been two separate jobs -- one inside the home, the other outside it. It's that the first of those jobs is a lot more taxing than it used to be. Mothers who try to live up to the new parenting standards of the professional middle class seem to have few options: They can overwork themselves, or they can leave the workforce.